Category: Book Reviews

Well, I’ve spent the past couple of weeks on normal time, and it’s refreshing. 🙂

Let me explain…

I had a Sony radio alarm clock beside my bed. As I have to rest in bed much of the day, it is therefore my most important source of time keeping. The problem being, it’s been gaining a few minutes every year since I got it about ten years ago – and the buttons to adjust the time do not work. So I was stuck with a slowly speeding clock. So over the years I’ve had to subtract 10, 20 30, 40 mins, etc, to get the right time.

Anyway, at the turn of the year it was finally one hour exactly fast, which is fine, and easy to work with. But sometimes when I woke up in the morning I would forget to subtract the extra hour, so ended up getting up at 4am instead of 5am, which is more normal for me. And then it continued to speed up, and my brain began to hurt trying to subtract 1 hour and 3 minutes from the clock and it threatened to mess with my rest times which were slowly getting shorter and shorter…

So I finally ordered a new one – different make, model, everything.

I’d held back because I’d originally wanted to get one that auto-updated for Daylight Saving Time. This one doesn’t.

But now, guess what? When I look at the clock, I see the real-time I normally had to keep in my head – I can see real time for real!

No more math required to tell the time – the joy of small joys. 🙂

This book proved to be something of a disappointment. The first half covers the prehistory of the Fens, the second half is a travelers guide to pubs, cafes, and churches.

There’s also a lot of inconsistency: for example, in the half about prehistory, there’s a section break and a new section about Pryor visiting a local aviation museum, which was completely out of place. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of that occurring in this book.

I really enjoyed Pryor’s books “Britain BC” and “Home”, but this book suffers from lack of structure. I’m easily given the impression that the publisher gave Pryor a wordcount that he struggled to make.

Either way, am still happy to read his other works – just be warned that this book is more a meandering love letter about the place into modern times rather than the prehistoric periods Pryor’s other books cover.

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